{"id":353393,"date":"2018-03-22T20:05:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/norway-government-on-verge-of-collapse-as-minister-resigns\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T20:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:05:01","slug":"norway-government-on-verge-of-collapse-as-minister-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/norway-government-on-verge-of-collapse-as-minister-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Government on Verge of Collapse as Minister Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Norway\u2019s Justice Minister Sylvi Listhaug quit on Tuesday to avert a collapse of the minority government after she caused uproar with comments accusing the opposition of being lenient on terror suspects.<\/p>\n

Ms Listhaug had been poised to lose a confidence vote in parliament later on Tuesday over her Facebook posts – a prospect that could have seen her right-wing party leave the governing coalition in protest.<\/p>\n

Her decision to resign defused Norway’s worst political crisis in years.<\/p>\n

She said: “The choice (to resign) was mine alone, and I’ve done what I believe was right.”<\/p>\n

She said she had faced a witch hunt and accused the opposition of not tolerating free speech.<\/p>\n

Adding: \u201cThe national debate has been turned into something of a kindergarten dispute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Listhaug, of the Progress Party, accused the opposition Labour Party this month of putting “terrorists’ rights” before national security, a particularly sensitive topic for Labour, which had to deal with the mass shooting by far-right militant Anders Behring Breivik in 2011.<\/p>\n

She made her comments after Labour and the Christian Democrats helped defeat a bill that would have given the state the right, without judicial review, to strip individuals of Norwegian citizenship if they were suspected of terrorism or of joining foreign militant groups.<\/p>\n

She apologised in parliament last week for causing a political storm. Opposition parties, however, said her gesture was not sincere enough, and that she should resign.<\/p>\n

Norway’s…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Norway\u2019s Justice Minister Sylvi Listhaug quit on Tuesday to avert a collapse of the minority government after she caused uproar with comments accusing the opposition of being lenient on terror suspects. Ms Listhaug had been poised to lose a confidence vote in parliament later on Tuesday over her Facebook posts – a prospect that could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}